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Then I widened the outside of the stripes, and painted back with background color the excess. Look from side (e.g. nova logo on image #3 above, I have to fix the borders) to find any irregularities. Even though you can paint only .2 mm wide lines with the brush, you can always narrow it with background color. You can always take a photo and use helper lines in an editor to find where do you need to fix the lines. It can take time, but should be quite a mechanical process.
And I can fail, too, see genestealer magus above.

Did I get it right? You place the tape, paint alongside the tape's edge, then move the tape strip and repeat. Then eventually mask again to straighten it out with the background color.
Either way, brain memo was made

To mini:

Yeaaah with the face in place the red kneepads are a totally different story ^^ As far as I'm concerned the focus sits nicely on the face. Very interesting lightning.
Keep on it

Did I get it right? You place the tape, paint alongside the tape's edge, then move the tape strip and repeat. Then eventually mask again to straighten it out with the background color.
Either way, brain memo was made

Something like that, I just skipped the "repeat" part and jump immediately the the "straighten" part. But you can always place two strips and keep the distance even.
My pain is that do not know where can I buy narrower tapes, like .5mm and 1.5mm ones. Halving a 3mm one is PITA and I cannot do it properly.

Lone, assuming you are in Europe, Vallejo sells some 1mm and 2mm tape: https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/cate...ols-en/page/2/
Otherwise I would say if you have any stores around that sell model trains or remote controlled cars/trucks, they will probably have some or there should be a webstore that sells that stuff in Europe. I know that Tamiya also makes a 1/32nd size tape, which I believe is around .7mm

Some fun facts: I will never buy any big metal minis anymore. I could not put it together, cut down the end of the minigun and "borrowed" a small bit of string from my wife's guitar.
But seems that others had the same problem, too.

I love your blending/transitions. And the freehand is supremely well done! I'd like to see a zoomed in photo of the skull tattoo.
The right side of his face looks very dark & desaturated though, is that the final color?

Worked some more on the minigun, used some VMA Gold 71066 on the bottom part (is this some combo minigun/flamethrower???), ready except weathering, spending a lot of time looking up dagger and snake tattoo (see serpentia commando) for his other shoulder: